Jacobin

If you check the archives, you’ll find I’ve already written two scathing reviews of the previous Avatar films, so it hardly seems worthwhile to type out a third one for Avatar: Fire and Ash. They’re...

This is a month-by-month guide to the big fights — electoral, labor, international — that we can anticipate ahead of time in 2026. I hope it will be useful for Democratic Socialists of America leaders, union...

Ever since Zohran Mamdani began his ascent to mayoral office, journalists and commentators have been debating the effects of his proposed millionaire tax increase. Skeptics worry that the tax will cause large numbers of millionaires...

Donald Trump’s obsessive hatred of wind energy has reared its ugly head again. On Monday, December 22, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced that all construction on offshore wind projects would be halted due to “national...

This fall, France’s former president Nicolas Sarkozy was briefly imprisoned in a criminal case involving alleged corruption and illegal campaign financing by Muammar Gaddafi. Sarkozy’s three weeks in a Paris jail were a major political...

Fifteen years ago, a little-known federal judge named Brett Kavanaugh argued that the country’s top workplace regulator overstepped when it cited an aquatic theme park for a gruesome worker death because viewers enjoy seeing “these...

Why is it that powerful people typically wait until they have no power to take the right position and effectively admit they were wrong when they had more power to do something about it? We...

All over the country, Americans are struggling to pay their utility bills. In the Hudson Valley, the situation is particularly dire, with some ratepayers coping with surprise monthly bills of thousands of dollars. It doesn’t...

America’s health care spending is so out of control that the country’s economy is becoming dependent on it. According to a report released last week by the US Department of Commerce, economic growth swelled in...

With an eye to the dilemmas and possibilities of having a socialist mayor in New York City, last month I published an article on the lessons of Wisconsin’s so-called sewer socialists, who governed Milwaukee for almost...

Vivek Chibber We have to divide the social democratic movement into prewar and postwar. And by war, I mean World War II, not World War I. I think, in the prewar period, that is, the...

Last Friday, I spoke on a panel at NYU on political theorist Alyssa Battistoni’s new book Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature. The room was packed, somewhat unusual for an academic book of...